(Chef is building a little castle out of mashed potatoes and sausages)
Gordon Ramsey: Fuck me, what is that. Bloody hell. That position is completely indefensible. Why are the archer towers pointed away from the front gate? And look at that pitiful gravy moat. Invaders could cross that with a bloody toothpick. Jesus christ.
@dimiclaudeblaigan asked for a tutorial on how to begin drawing. Good news! If you can draw a funky looking stick man, you have already started!
I think that stick people are a great starting point for artists because of the things you can learn from them that will be important later on.
If you are able to draw a circle and a couple of lines, you can easily put together a stick person.
Congratulations! You have started to draw. :)
A stick person is a very minimal artistic representation of a real life person. It is simple yet recognizable, and is widely used in art, media, and signage.
But what can a stick person teach us about drawing people that look more like… well, people? Lets have a look!
People in this demographic, please let me know how to tag to get a hold of you as someone who doesn’t need Image Descriptions!!
Alt text! ALWAYS alt text, because in the HTML page structure, it’s PART of the image element’s attributes.
If it’s not, it gets separated and, particularly with the way modern content management systems render text (often as weird separate chunks), can’t be easily found.
Putting “image id” text in front of a description is NOT standard accessibility practice. Using ALT text is supported by all browsers and screen reader software.
DO NOT duplicate alt text and visible text, because then a visually impaired user has to listen to it twice.
If you need visible captions paired with images, use the HTML figure and figcaption elements - you can use different alt text there to add information a visually impaired user needs, and the figcaption to explain the meaning for all audiences.
XKit Rewritten (available on firefox and chrome) has a setting to display alt text under images, so if you need or want to see the description, this makes it automatic.
Once you install the extension, open its menu, find and enable AccessKit, then click on it to open the list of accessibility settings. “Move alt text to captions below images” is the setting you’re looking for.
The Heritage Foundation is a tool of the right-wing fascists oligarchs. Their “Project 2025” is a blue print to seize control of government and dismantle it so the oligarchs can create their own government. They have a plan called Schedule F which will make nearly all federal employees “at will” employees they will terminate immediately. They will be replaced with corrupt MAGA goons and Christo-Facscists that are currently being trained to slot into government positions where they will dismantle democracy and strip our rights.
America will cease to exist. We will never have political power or our freedoms again. The FBI, Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Education, etc will be eliminated or restructured to allow businesses and oligarchs to run amok with no regulations to follow or consequences for their corrupt actions. Not a single soul or entity will have any recourse against the fascist government or corrupt corporations.
This is the oligarchs end game. This is sinister and very real. This is not a conspiracy theory and you can easily view it on the Heritage Foundation website or in numerous articles by simply googling Project 2025.
I hate glamorizing over-working. It’s not healthy. The fact that there are so many people going without sleep, food, personal hygiene (not to mention time for relaxation, personal time, and socialization, which are very necessary for mental health) just to stay afloat is not something to be celebrated or applauded. It’s a problem, not a goal that all good employees should aspire to, or a norm everyone should be expected to perform.
Every time I get frustrated with a tool or appliance I think about the bit in 17776 about how people crave a little bit of inefficiency, how if everything always worked perfectly and instantly we would lose a lot of the joys of being human, how deeply humans want to want, and I try to find the joy and humanity in what’s frustrating me and enjoy that it’s not perfect
but this does not apply to printers. absolute bastard machines
yeah where’s the robot that picks up cat poop and wipes the floor with disinfectant? Where’s the robot that loads and empties the dishwasher? where’s the robot that puts away the clean washing?
Roomba’s about as good as we can do with current tech
Tags made me rethink this whole situation. We DO have a robot who does the dishes for us. She’s called a dishwasher. Wow.
oh hey, hi! yeah i get you, but then what’s the point of google and other big tech names wasting so much time on object recognition? idk, just seems to me like the physicality (i mean like the movement, precision grip, and strength control) of the robot would, at this stage in our technology, be the larger obstacle to overcome?
oh hey, hi! yeah i get you, but then what’s the point of google and other big tech names wasting so much time on object recognition?
Improving their search engine to search for things in pictures and videos, mostly.
The PITA is that you need a lot of processing power on Google’s servers to make it work. This isn’t going to be cost effective unless you pay a pretty big subscription fee to Google so your robot can use their servers.
Meanwhile, there is zero market motivation for making an in-home version of this technology until the code can fit in a $1000 Nvidia Jetson or equivalent.
Oh yeah, and you’re not needing to just identify and manage plates, you have to deal with dirty plates, which have a huge variety of appearances. That’s where you need the huge processing power.
idk, just seems to me like the physicality (i mean like the movement, precision grip, and strength control) of the robot would, at this stage in our technology, be the larger obstacle to overcome?
Those, along with 3D depth perception and spatial awareness, are also huge problems.
People just don’t give the human brain enough credit.
We have robots with the dexterity, precision, and (I can’t think of the technical word for “soft touch”) to do surgery and assemble machinery at the nanometer scale. Dishes wouldn’t be that hard. The actual reason we don’t have them is it’s not cost-effective/profitable on a consumer scale.
Expanding a thought from a conversation this morning:
In general, I think “Is X out-of-character?” is not a terribly useful question for a writer. It shuts down possibility, and interesting directions you could take a character.
A better question, I believe, is “What would it take for Character to do X?” What extremity would she find herself in, where X starts to look like a good idea? What loyalties or fears leave him with X as his only option? THAT’S where a potentially interesting story lies.
In practice, I find that you can often justify much more from a character than you initially dreamed you could: some of my best stories come from “What might drive Character to do [thing he would never do]?” As long as you make it clear to the reader what the hell pushed your character to this point, you’ve got the seed of a compelling story on your hands.
this connects to some REALLY good writing advice i remember from @batshaped
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Characters are contradictory, just like people are. What would it take for them to do the thing they’ve told themselves they’d never do, and how would they try to justify it?
I love this post so much I have done everything in my power to make sure I will never forget it via reblogging it every October 5th, in memory of discovering it for the first time
Israel is an apartheid state that unjustly occupies Palestinian land.
Israel is a Jewish state.
Jews worldwide do not bear the responsibility of the Israeli army or government.
The American government backs Israel, largely because of the efforts of evangelical Christian lobbyists. Wether or not Jewish Americans want this is irrelevant to the USA military.
The American government is rooted in white supremacy and antisemitism, and is constantly verging on Christian theocracy.
Criticism of Israel, while necessary, can very easily be co-opted into antisemitism. It needs to be handled carefully.
We can expect both antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crimes to spike in the coming weeks.
Jews and Muslims are not enemies. We have to remember that and stand up for each other.
It’s a universally known fact that you don’t fuck with our crab cakes here in Maryland.
Unfortunately, that second billboard is a photoshopped fake. BUT the real billboards that went up are just as fun!
So PETA put up that top billboard in 2018 in Baltimore, and the restaurant across the street, Jimmy’s Famous Seafood, put up a response. They also debuted a beer called, appropriately, PETA Tears, but I digress.
The ME was a subtle call out, a warning shot if you will.
But earlier this year (2023) right in time for Lent in very catholic Baltimore, PETA decided to try again.
To which Jimmy’s decided fuck that, let’s get two billboards this time. (WaPo)
No lie, ‘savor the sacrifice’ is my new favorite tag line.
*peers out the window* Weird shit, mostly. It’s fun living here.
“They died to be enjoyed: savor the sacrifice” on a billboard for a seafood restaurant is possibly most Silt Verses thing I’ve ever seen in reality.
When you’re so terminaly online that you have to make it so that your internet stops working after 2am so that you can get some semblance of a sleep schedule.
I tried to slip CBD gummies into some kids halloween candy like i saw on the news but the kids recognized them and laughed at me for not having any real weed
These are the sort of people that would lose their life savings to a guy doing three card monte on a street corner if he was wearing a zoot suit and introduced himself as “Vinnie ‘Quickfingers’ Sanchez”.
There’s a thing called “broken windows policing” which is the cops cracking down on minor crimes and generally shaking down a neighborhood. The point of it is to prevent bigger crimes etc.
It is actually a horrible misunderstanding of what’s actually happening and incredibly counterproductive.
“Broken windows” theory has to do with criminals feeling bolder in areas that don’t look cared for. The ACTUAL problem is that predators look for easy prey, and criminals look for easy targets. Broken windows are a symptom of an area with absentee landlords, and an area with no one looking out for the residents. The people who live there are probably too busy or wrapped up in merely surviving to care of somebody is stealing a bike, or breaking into someplace. It’s a poverty of money, time, and also attention.
Adding cops to stop and frisk isn’t helping anyone. That isn’t what the neighborhood NEEDS.
It needs the goddamn windows fixed. It needs people who live there to have enough time and attention to help their neighbors. It needs the buildings to be locally owned with people living there who are keeping up the maintenance!
Predators look for easy prey and thieves want an easy job. A neighbor watching from their porch means fewer porch pirates. Parents and aunties looking out their kitchen windows at the kid’s playground mean the parents and older siblings there have backup if something happens. Neighborhoods that look cared for and have more residents around with time and attention to spare are safer.
THIS is what the broken windows theory is actually about. It’s not cops. It’s networks of neighbors caring for each other. It happens more easily when people have resources and time, so poverty makes an area vulnerable.
But, middle class suburban areas can be vulnerable too. If there’s no one home, if people don’t know each other, if they spend all their time on the freeway commuting or at work or elsewhere, then the area becomes an easy target. Which is why all the houses have Ring doorbells and video cameras.
The way to make a neighborhood safer is to build connections, care for one another, and lift each other up. The broken windows are a symptom of a larger care gap. The care and connections are what is missing and adding care and connections will make the area more resilient and safer over time.
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